Officials say the siblings, who couldn’t swim, waded into the deep end of the Hollywood Premiere Motel’s pool on Aug. 4. When they began struggling their mother, who also couldn’t swim, jumped in to try to rescue them.

A bystander who recently learned CPR pulled all three from the pool, but Gemesis had no pulse when paramedics arrived.

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